![]() ![]() ![]() And when I say that these films depict people from the country as dangerous, I mean that they are usually inbred cannibals, a hyperbolised image of how American people from the city view their Southern neighbours: degenerate rednecks made so backwards by the backwoods and so beyond the civil limits of the law that they violate not one but two of Western culture’s most heinous taboos. In any iteration, the message is blatant: the country and its peoples are dangerous. With origins in traditional fairy tales, the notion of wandering from the village to the deep, dark forest becomes, in modern horror cinema, driving from the city to take a vacation in the country. “Don’t go into the woods” is perhaps one of the oldest warnings in horror cinema. Wrong Turn (2003): The Representation of Gender and Class
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